Install VMware ESXI 6.0/6.5 Server and create Virutal machine

Create Virtual Machine in VMware ESXI 6.0 server

TOPIC covered  : 

About VMware
Benefits of VMware ESXI 6.0 server
Alternatives of VMware ESXI 6.0 server
Installation of VMware ESXI 6.0 server
Setup network
Access Using Vsphere Client
Create Centos / Ubuntu Virtual Machine

About VMware ESXI server :
VMware ESXi Server is computer virtualization software developed by VMware Inc. 
Implemented within the VMware Infrastructure, ESXi can be used to facilitate centralized management for enterprise desktops and data center applications. VMware Inc. developed ESX and ESXi as bare metal embedded hypervisors, which means that they run directly on server hardware and do not require the installation of an additional underlying operating system. This virtualization software creates and runs its own kernel, which is run after a Linux kernel bootstraps the hardware.
The resulting service is a microkernel, which has three interfaces:
Hardware
Guest system

Console operating system (service console)
If you want to know more about VMware esxi server visit : About VMWARE

benefits of vmware esxi : 
1. Vmware ESXi provide the most advanced hypervisor
2. VMware ESXi Is built on a prominent and reliable foundation:
3.VMware ESXi provides a better memory management
4. With VMware ESXi, upgrading to several complementary application in the future is possible.

5. Increased workload mobility and fast duplication

For Detailed Information visit : http://www.iperiusbackup.net/en/benefits-virtualization-administrator-would-get-from-using-vmware-esxi/

Alternatives of VMware ESXI : 

KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine)  [ Open source ] 

Openstack    [ Open source ]
Microsoft Hyper-V Server
Portable Virtualbox

Source : https://alternativeto.net/software/vmware-esxi/

Installation of VMware ESXI 6.0 server : 

First we need to create bootable pendrive containing VMware esxi 6.0 setup.

and Installation process for VMware ESXI 6.0 server is same as installation of VMware esxi 6.5 server.

If you want to know how to create bootable pendrive for VMware esxi 6.0, link below

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpqUhHAw3-U

After creating bootable pendrive, attach bootable pendrive to system / server and start the system and select boot from pendrive and follow the instruction below,

In this, i hide the version because the installation process is almost same for all VMware esxi, after it prompt the boot section, select the VMware ESXI part to establish the installtion process,

you can either press enter or wait for system to load ESXI installer, it will take some time to enable and load ESXI installer.

After that, it will establish some loading part which contain different part like nfsshare file and establish some more things. it will take some time to load.

now it will prompt the message from VMware ESXI 6.0 server, and ask you to press "enter" to start the installation. after pressing enter it will start establish.

Now, it is asking to accept the "end user License agreement " which is called "EULA" and pressing enter it will prompt another screen.

after accepting the license agreement of VMware ESXI 6.0, it will scan your system for installation. it will scan your hardware details like size of hard disk, RAM size and many more things.

If you have more than one hard drive in your system/server you can select one of them and install the VMware ESXI in that hard disk and it work as primary hard disk when VMware ESXI server start. remaining space will distribute for future use like to create virtual machine.

select the keyboard layout, you can select as per your need and remain default and continue by pressing enter.

Now, your VMware esxi has admin user which is "root user", you can create more user when installation done, but for now it is asking you to create root password which is not short than 7 words (policy). after giving password [ i recommend strong password for production environment)

 Now it will gather additional information from your system to establish the installation process and load those changes in system/server.

ignore warning because it will not show that warning because i has some issues related to my system. So it will not prompt that message, just ignored and press enter to continue.

Now it is confirming that you want to install VMware ESXI 6.0 server in system/server or not, if you really want to continue press the "f11" key [ or mention in the system ]

it will take some time to install VMware ESXI 6.0 in your system,

after intsallation,

after complete installation of VMware ESXI just remove pendrive and reboot by pressing enter, so it will start it service and setup the VMware ESXI server.

after reboot it will loads services and configuration for server and setup network, users, credentials, hard disk for the server.

Actually this server setup in private environment so it is showing ip and my network is dhcp in nature, so it take automatically from the network server.

if you want to establish static global IP address for VMware ESXI server follow steps below.

for network setup, see the left bottom corner of screen, to customize system setting including network press "F2".

Now it will ask for credential for root user which you setup already, by giving credentials it will give you access to system setting and you can change different setting for server.

you will see different setting of VMware esxi server. you can configure network, manage and test network, check logs , view system information, troubleshooting network and many more.

 we need to setup network for of server, so we can access the web panel ( for VMware esxi 6.5 server ) and vsphere client ( for VMware esxi 6.0 server).
To setup network go to "Configure Management Network" and press enter

 After that you will different configuration like network adapters, ipv4 configuration, ipv6 configuration and many things.

 Now go to ipv4 Configuration [ depends ] and press enter to establish the static network for your VMware esxi 6.0 server.

Now it will prompt you some information about setting ipv4 network setup, like disable ipv4 network, DHCP network and setup static environment.

select "ste static ipv4 address and network configuration" and set your ip address and gateway and Netmask which is provided by your server vendor. and after giving details of your network press enter to establish the network.

press "Y" to made those changes, and it will lead you back to network configuration.

now you will see in the screen that server changed its IP address. Now press "esc" to go back.

and it will show you "IP address" of your server which is establish by you. 

Now you go to your system ( windows ) and download the VMware Vsphere client for accessing the VMware esxi server.

Download link for sphere client : https://my.vmware.com/en/web/vmware/info/slug/datacenter_cloud_infrastructure/vmware_vsphere/6_5

After downloading the Vsphere client, open vsphere client and give server credential to the vsphere client 

it will ask you for IP address, username and password to setup full access to server.

it will prompt ( i guess ) just install the certificates and ignore. after that it will take some time to initiate some configuration and after that it will give you full access to server.

hope you enjoy the session :) 

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